Author: MONTAGU (Mary Wortley), Lady:
Title: The Poetical Works Of the Right Honourable Lady M--y W-----y M-------e.
Description: London: Printed for J. Tonson, J. Hodges, J. Wren, and A. Millar, 1781. 12mo (in 6s), 175 x 105 mms., pp. 180, including half-title, contemporary sheepskin, red leather label; strip cut from top margin of half-title to remove signature, front joint cracked and tender, rear joint slightly cracked, top and base of spine chipped. Lady Mary's poetry has managed to survive Saintsbury's observation that her "verse flashes with the very paste in Dodsley."

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